It required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp.

LEAD: The local government in Zanzibar will introduce a law to require journalists, newspapers and magazines to register with the Government, a local official said today.

The legislation would also require national magazines and newspapers to collect sales taxes on subscriptions and remit the revenue to the tax authority of the subscriber's home state.

Pulp processors have not been able to count on a consistent, reliable supply, but he suggested that requiring newspapers to be recycled should stabilize the market.

Several states, including Maryland, Wisconsin and California, have recently passed laws requiring newspapers to begin to use recycled paper.

It requires newspapers with weekly circulations of 20,000 or more that are printed or sold in the county to publish only on recycled paper by the end of 1996.

It would have required newspapers to print "clarifications" of stories that a committee of Social Credit legislators deemed inaccurate, and to reveal their sources on demand.

The Times had argued that the suit should be dismissed because requiring newspapers to monitor advertisements would violate the First Amendment.

The association said Connecticut is the only state that has a law requiring newspapers to use recycled paper as a fixed percentage of the newsprint they use.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law requiring newspapers to publish statements of circulation and ownership, and to mark advertising plainly.